Example sentences of "[pers pn] must have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the library , the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance . |
| 2 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 3 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 4 | Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved ! |
| 5 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 6 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |
| 8 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 9 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 11 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 12 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 13 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 14 | We fill grocery cartons with shoes that have the shape of living feet , a bulge on the left where she must have had a swollen joint ; I did not notice it while she was alive . |
| 15 | ‘ No idea — but I gather she must have had a wonky heart . ’ |
| 16 | " She must have had a fanciful imagination , or been delirious . |
| 17 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 18 | We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan . |
| 19 | We must have looked a comical sight in those days : a boy and a bird ‘ dancing ’ up the road — two steps , stop , turn , two steps , turn , stop … |
| 20 | They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car . |
| 21 | ‘ If they were foreigners , ’ he said slowly , ‘ they must have obtained a royal licence to enter England . |
| 22 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 23 | ‘ He would slag off someone terribly and you would think they must have had a terrible row . |
| 24 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 25 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 26 | That meant that they must have had a good sexual relationship too . |
| 27 | Hey they must have had a good meal other night . |
| 28 | An an er , and er then they must have got a massive erm in a couple of months time , you know , they 're not gon na be able to control him , he might be , well if he hits me , I 'll just hit him back . |
| 29 | Certainly they were decorative and they must have added a barbaric vibrancy to the temple 's complex roof-line , but they also indicate a general dedication of the building to Poteidan . |
| 30 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |